猪八戒
Pigsy Joins
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高老庄有个老人叫高太公，他有三个女儿，最小的叫翠兰。三年前，一个年轻人来到这里，做了翠兰的丈夫。他非常会干活，地里的事，别人要做很多天，他一个人一天就做完了。
可是，后来他的样子慢慢变了：长鼻子，大耳朵，最后变成了一张猪脸！他还特别能吃，一顿饭要吃很多很多米饭，早上还要吃一百多个饼。最近半年，他把翠兰关在后面的房子里，谁也不让见。
高太公哭着说：“我请了很多人来抓他，可是谁也打不赢他。”孙悟空说：“别怕，今天晚上，我来帮你！”
孙悟空让翠兰回到爸爸身边，自己变成了翠兰的样子，坐在房间里等。半夜，一阵大风吹来，那个长着猪脸的人走了进来，想抱“翠兰”。
孙悟空在床上说：“我今天不舒服。我爸妈说你长得太难看了，要请人来抓你。”他说：“我不怕！我会很多变化，还有一把九齿钉耙，谁也抓不到我。”孙悟空说：“他们说，要去请齐天大圣孙悟空来。”他一听，有点怕了：“齐天大圣？听说他很厉害，那我还是走吧！”
孙悟空马上变回自己的样子，大叫：“你看我是谁！”他吓了一大跳，变成了风，跑了。孙悟空一直追到了福陵山的云栈洞。
两个人从晚上打到天亮。孙悟空问：“你到底是什么妖怪？”他说：“我以前是天上的天蓬元帅，管着天河。有一次在蟠桃会上，我喝多了，去找月亮上的嫦娥，想跟她好。玉皇大帝很生气，把我赶下了天。我走错了路，就变成了现在这个样子。”
他又说：“观音菩萨让我在这里等一个去西天的人。我等了好几年，还没等到。”孙悟空说：“那个去西天的人，就是我的师父啊！”他一听，马上把钉耙放在地上，说：“那快带我去见师父！”
他见到唐僧，就拜了又拜，说：“观音菩萨给我起的名字，叫猪悟能。”唐僧听说他已经不吃肉、不喝酒了，很高兴：“我再给你起一个名字，叫八戒吧。”从这以后，大家都叫他猪八戒。
离开的时候，猪八戒对高太公说：“爸爸，请你好好照顾我的妻子。要是我们去不了西天，我就回来做你的女婿！”孙悟空笑他：“别说傻话了，快走吧！”
现在，唐僧有了两个徒弟。可是，前面还有一条最宽的大河。河里住着一个妖怪，脖子上挂着很多人头……
Key words
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 老人 | lǎorén | old person; the elderly |
| 别人 | biéren | other people; others; someone else |
| 后来 | hòulái | afterwards; later |
| 变 | biàn | to change; to become; change; transformation |
| 耳朵 | ěrduo | ear |
| 最后 | zuìhòu | finally; in the end; last; final |
| 变成 | biànchéng | to change into; to turn into; to become |
| 张 | zhāng | surname Zhang |
| 脸 | liǎn | face |
| 干活 | gànhuó | to work; to do manual labor |
| 鼻子 | bízi | nose |
| 顿 | dùn | suddenly; immediately (as in 顿时) |
English (for the teacher)
In Gao Village there lived an old man called old Mr Gao, who had three daughters; the youngest was called Gao Cuilan. Three years earlier, a young man had come here and become Cuilan's husband. He was a tremendous worker: a job in the fields that took other people many days, he finished alone in one.
But later his looks slowly changed: a long nose, big ears, and in the end a pig's face! He also ate an enormous amount: heaps and heaps of rice at every meal, and more than a hundred flatbreads for breakfast. For the last six months he had kept Cuilan locked in the back rooms and let no one see her.
Old Mr Gao said in tears: "I've hired many people to catch him, but none of them could beat him." Sun Wukong said: "Don't worry. Tonight I'll help you!"
Sun Wukong sent Cuilan back to her father, turned himself into Cuilan and sat waiting in her room. At midnight a great wind blew, and the man with the pig's face came in and tried to hug "Cuilan".
Sun Wukong said from the bed: "I'm not feeling well today. My mum and dad say you're too ugly, and they're going to get someone to catch you." He said: "I'm not afraid! I know lots of transformations, and I have a nine-toothed rake. No one can catch me." Sun Wukong said: "They say they're going to ask the Great Sage Equal to Heaven, Sun Wukong." When he heard that, he got a little scared: "The Great Sage Equal to Heaven? They say he's really tough. I'd better go!"
Sun Wukong at once turned back into himself and shouted: "Look who I am!" He got the fright of his life, turned into a wind and fled. Sun Wukong chased him all the way to Cloud Path Cave on Fuling Mountain.
The two of them fought from night till dawn. Sun Wukong asked: "What kind of monster are you, anyway?" He said: "I used to be Marshal Tianpeng in heaven, in charge of the River of Heaven. Once at the Peach Banquet I drank too much and went after Chang'e, the Moon Goddess, and tried to flirt with her. The Jade Emperor was furious and threw me out of heaven. I took the wrong road and ended up looking like this."
He went on: "Guanyin told me to wait here for someone going to the Western Paradise. I've waited for years and he still hasn't come." Sun Wukong said: "The one going to the Western Paradise is my master!" When he heard that, he put his rake down on the ground at once and said: "Then take me to the master, quickly!"
When he met the Tang Monk, he bowed again and again and said: "Guanyin gave me the name Zhu Wuneng." The Tang Monk heard that he had already given up meat and wine, and was very pleased: "Let me give you another name: Bajie, Eight Prohibitions." From then on, everyone called him Zhu Bajie, or Pigsy.
As they left, Zhu Bajie said to old Mr Gao: "Father, please take good care of my wife. If we don't make it to the Western Paradise, I'll come back and be your son-in-law again!" Sun Wukong laughed at him: "Stop talking nonsense and come on!"
Now the Tang Monk had two disciples. But ahead lay the widest river yet. In it lived a monster with a necklace of human heads...